The Axemakers Gift: Technology’s Capture and Control of Our Minds and Culture

Featured Book The Axemaker’s Gift Technology’s Capture and Control of Our Minds and Culture James Burke and Robert OrnsteinPaperback edition 1997 Each time the axemakers offered a new way to “cut and control” the world to make us rich or safe or invincible or knowledgeable, we accepted the gift and used it. And when we … Seguir leyendo →

Moral Tribes

Featured Book Moral Tribes Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them Joshua D. GreenePaperback edition 2014 We live in an age of historically declining violence and expanding kindness. But it doesn’t feel like that to most of us. Unprecedented global threats and conflicts demand advances in our ability to coexist peacefully. Joshua D. … Seguir leyendo →

Greece: The European Axial Age

Something extraordinary in the history of humanity occurred 2500 years ago in Athens—much of our cultural heritage, for better and worse, descends from a very small population of landowners, farmers and sailors during a surprisingly short space of time. They organized themselves into a radically democratic government. They held as a high ideal the dignity … Seguir leyendo →

God 4.0

Featured Book God 4.0 On the Nature of Higher Consciousness and the Experience Called “God” Robert Ornstein with Sally M. OrnsteinPaperback edition 2021 Review by Denise WinnContributing Writer “What is needed, now, is a new view, to reassess and reform the concept of God. It is the experience of going beyond the norm to achieve insight … Seguir leyendo →

New World New Mind

Featured Book New World New Mind Moving Toward Conscious Evolution Robert E. Ornstein and Paul R. Ehrlich Paperback edition 2000 The world that made us was one that changed little or not at all during a lifetime: tasks and social roles were passed down unaltered for millennia. Our biological evolution favored ancestors with limited perceptions and … Seguir leyendo →

Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis

Featured Book Our Choice A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis Al Gore Paperback edition 2009 “Our Choice gathers in one place all of the most effective solutions that are available now and that, together, will solve this crisis. It is meant to depoliticize the issue as much as possible and inspire readers to take … Seguir leyendo →

Multimind: A New Way of Looking at Human Behavior

Featured Book Multimind A New Way of Looking at Human Behavior By Robert E. OrnsteinContributing Writer The author notes that since the publication of his breakthrough work “The Psychology of Consciousness,” the scientific understanding of the brain has become more detailed and specific. Rather than confining our understanding to two minds: the rational mind, dependent … Seguir leyendo →

Healthy Pleasures

Featured Book Healthy Pleasures Robert Ornstein and David SobelPaperback edition 1990 Imagine a medical treatment that can help lower your blood pressure, decrease your risk for heart disease and cancer, boost your immune function and block pain. It’s safe, inexpensive and readily available. The main side effects include feeling good, an increased sense of well-being … Seguir leyendo →

A Mega Building Boom as the Era Ends

In Britain, about 1,300 Neolithic mega-sites appear to have been built within little more than a century. By Sally MallamContributing Writer While Stonehenge is definitely the most famous stone circle in the British Isles, recent discoveries reveal that about 4,500 years ago as the Neolithic era reached its end, as many as 1,300 Neolithic mega-sites … Seguir leyendo →

How Reliable Is Our Ethical Behavior?

Morality and ethical behavior are foundational to human cooperation and success. But moral action can be distorted by misinformation, emotions, and the influence of others. Robert Ornstein, PhD; David Sobel, MD, MPH; and Sally MallamContributing Writers The content of this section, unless indicated, represents Robert Ornstein’s award-winning Psychology of Evolution Trilogy and Multimind. It is reproduced here by kind … Seguir leyendo →